Josh Friedes, marriage equality director for Equal Rights Washington, has spent the better part of a decade asking you to share with friends, family, coworkers - really anybody who would listen - your personal stories of love, commitment, and struggle.

As it turns out, his assumption - when we, as individualsmore --------------------------------------------------

Father Stephen V. Sundborg, president of Seattle University, angered students who attend the school after he made a statement in the Seattle Times about the state's marriage equality bill. Several student organizations, comprising both LGBT and allied members, sent a letter to Sundborg dismore--------------------------------------------------

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 has contributed $15,000 to Washington United for Marriage to help with the Approve Referendum 74 campaign if and when it comes to the November ballot.

UFCW 21 is also housing Washington United for Marriage in its Georgetown union more --------------------------------------------------

Washington's Catholic bishops have not yet decided how aggressively to campaign against marriage equality if Referendum 74 qualifies for the November ballot, a spokesperson for the Seattle archdiocese said on March 6.

'The bishops of Washington state have not yet determined themore --------------------------------------------------

On March 7, the National Hockey League (NHL) launched the You Can Play Project, an aggressive advocacy program to change the sometimes-homophobic culture in sports with a message that athletes should be judged on their athletic skill and ability, not sexual orientation or other discrimmore --------------------------------------------------

Gay City Health Project is proud to announce that the Gay City Wellness Center has welcomed more than 16,000 visitors since first opening its Broadway storefront location in 2004. For the past eight years, the Gay City Wellness Center has been a safe and welcoming place more--------------------------------------------------

Washington United for Marriage, the coalition of organizations, congregations, unions, and businesses working together to secure civil marriage for loving, committed, same-sex couples, has hit the road for an 11-city tour around the state.

'We will be making an 11-city tour tmore --------------------------------------------------

Since Saturday, the King County Medical Examiner's Office has identified seven likely overdose deaths from heroin, possibly due to an increased potency of the drug or mixture with other substances. This is a notable and rapid rise in deaths; King County saw 32 heroin overdose deaths in total more--------------------------------------------------

'I think it's inevitable,' Markell said in an interview with Reuters Insider TV. He added that he expects Delaware's legislature to take up marriage legislation 'probably within the next fewmore --------------------------------------------------

Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District - the state's largest - announced March 6 that it had concluded a deal with the federal government to prevent anti-Gay bullying in its schools. The agreement also settles lawsuits brought by six students who had been targeted by bullies.

The Roman Catholic diocese of Sacramento, California, said on March 7 that it will cut off funds to Francis House, a nonprofit agency that assists homeless people, because the Methodist minister who runs the program supports marriage equality.

According to Freedom to Work officials, more than 100,000 people have joined the organization's campaign on Change.org urging President Obama to sign an executive order banning anti-LGBT workplace discrimination at companies that take federal contracts, which account for 22% of all jobsmore --------------------------------------------------

Results from the stage-three clinical trials of the 'Quad,' a new four-in-one daily pill from the Gilead Sciences pharmaceutical company, show it caused fewer adverse side effects than the company's three-drug pill, Atripla.

The results were released March 7 at the Conferencemore --------------------------------------------------

Maine voters will likely vote to allow equal marriage rights for Gay and Lesbian couples, a new poll shows.

A Public Policy Poll released March 7 says that 54% of Maine voters believe that same-sex marriage should be legal, and only 41% think it should be illegal. Voters in Mmore --------------------------------------------------

GAYS ATTACKED BY YOUTH MOB AT HIV TRAINING IN KENYA
An angry mob of young people attacked an HIV-prevention training meeting in Mombasa, Kenya, last week, routing 24 MSM participants, as reported by the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and Gay Star News.

BORN THIS WAY KAFE
FOR URBAN QUEER TEENS
AT CAL ANDERSON PARK
On Fridays, 5-9 p.m., at Cal Anderson Shelterhouse (1635 11th Ave., one block north of E. Pine St.), Seattle Parks & Recreation hosts Born This Way Kafe, a welcoming place where LGBTQ youth, friends and allies (ages 13-19) can gather, be themselmore

This week, the Associated Press introduced the world to Evie, U.S. President Barack Obama's Transgender childhood nanny in Indonesia. Although the story is interesting in the fact that there's a link between Evie, 66, and the president, the raw injustice of Evie's current living situatmore
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For the first time ever, an American Bar Association (ABA) commission will formally honor lawyers who have considerably advanced LGBT individuals in the legal profession and successfully championed LGBT legal causes.

After the emergence of HIV and the devastation it caused in the 1980s, the identification of yet another deadly virus about the same time went virtually unnoticed by the general public. News and concern about Hepatitis C (HCV) understandably took a back seat to HIV, and so the more
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